Snow Days

Snow Days

I was thinking about the coming season a few days ago and, as usual, it occurred to me that I might have a chance or two to hunt in snow. It’s still hot in Georgia, but snow is coming. Dear Lord, do I love to hunt in snow! I guess it’s a little surprising to hear a...
A Bucket-List Wingshooting Trip

A Bucket-List Wingshooting Trip

This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey… It’s a wingshooting bucket-list trip to two of the finest upland and waterfowl destinations in North America in this week’s episode of Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey as Chris heads to South...
Ruffed Grouse Covert

Ruffed Grouse Covert

Once upon a time Bob Sohrweide had a ruffed grouse cover. He’d had other covers before and since but this one was his best. Bob found it in his eighth grade Latin class. Let me tell you… As Bob walked into his classroom, he overheard Robbie Trotta finishing a story to...
Final Flights

Final Flights

The rivers were overflowing, the feeder streams were gushing and the lowland roads were washed out so I couldn’t get to my woodcock coverts. But I had an idea. The rain poured down for three straight days. It wasn’t a mist or a pitter patter on the tin roof. It was...
The U.K.’s Black Tie Event of Shooting

The U.K.’s Black Tie Event of Shooting

With the grouse moors covered in blooming heather, it’s once again time for the annual Sport of Kings: driven grouse shooting. With its abundance of heather and red grouse, Yorkshire’s undulating moors echo with gunfire each August as artfully engraved shotguns...
Hunting in the Shadows of Edmund Davis

Hunting in the Shadows of Edmund Davis

At times I may think I am unique in my hunting approach, yet the reality is I am not. Like many, I follow in the shadows of Edmund Davis. The phone rang listing a number I did not recognize. I answered. “Tom Keer.” “I had the chair.” “Terrific,” I said. “It’s...
Roasted Duck with Honeyed Figs

Roasted Duck with Honeyed Figs

Whole plucked and roasted ducks make for a lovely presentation—especially a single teal per person, which is just right for a dinner plate. For the Brine 1 cup kosher salt 1 cup organic cane sugar 1 tablespoon whole black peppercorns, crushed 4 allspice berries,...
Top of the Flyway

Top of the Flyway

This week on Sporting Classics with Chris Dorsey… Chris and his brother Joe migrate north to catch the start of the waterfowl season in Alberta as millions of ducks and geese begin their migration south. It is an unforgettable hunt as they let the Winchesters...